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William F. Quillian 
President of Wesleyan College 


ORTH from these historic old halls, into the far corners of the 

world, have gone our mothers, sisters and daughters, our friends 

and classmates, carrying with them the enduring qualities of 
refinement and culture—the heritage of every Wesleyan girl. 

Doubtless each holds dear the cherished memories of her Alma 
Mater. Doubtless, too, her ambitions and hopes are shared by all; 
but time and distance, working side by side, have effaced the vivid 
picture and dimmed for many the true significance of ““The Col- 
lege on the Hill.” 

That every friend and daughter of Wesleyan, however far 
afield, may glimpse again in retrospect those days forever gone, 
that they may share her problems and visualize her plans for the 
future, this booklet has been prepared. Its pages are for those 
who long to revive the friendships of their girlhood, for those who 
have faith in the inherent ideals of Wesleyan—those who have 


helped to make her permanent, abiding and successful. 


11144 


Mrs. William S. Benson, 
the first woman to receive 
a college degree 


The Mother of Woman's Colleges 


ust eighty-eight years ago the first chartered 

woman’s college in the world to exercise its pre- 

rogative and confer a degree upon young women 
became a reality. The founding of the College arose 
from the plans and proposals of Elijah Sinclair. 

In the General Assembly of Georgia in 1825, Dun- 
can G. Campbell of Wilkes County introduced the first 
bill ever offered in a legislative body for the establish- 
ment of a college for women, but it failed of passage. 
Ten years later his son-in-law, Colonel Daniel 
Candler, the uncle of the chief founders and patrons 
of Emory University, delivered a magnificent address 
at the University of Georgia in which he championed 
the higher education of women. Wesleyan College 
was the answer to his stirring appeal. 

At the instance of Georgia Methodists the General 
Assembly granted the charters of Emory College at 
Oxford and the Georgia Female College at Macon. 

Many were the hours of financial doubt that 
assailed the College in its infancy, and had it not 


been for such generous philanthropists, such men of vision, as 
Lovick Pierce, James A. Everett, Samuel Anthony, William H. 
Ellison, and later, George I. Seney, Wesleyan College might 
never have lived to undertake its conscious obligation to society. 
In their princely service to humanity and education these men 
literally knew “no North, no South, no East, no West.” 

When the first Wesleyan bell sounded the open door of higher 
education for women, there was no other bell carrying the same 
message; now such bells ring out from sea to sea. 


Original building, Wesleyan Female College 


A Bold Adventure in the Soul of Woman 


N THE first day of January, 1839, two years after 
its organization, the little College crowning 
Encampment Hill, since known as College 

Hill, threw open its doors for the reception of stu- 
dents. Sixty-nine enrolled the first day. It was a bold 
adventure in the soul of woman. Dr.GeorgeF. Pierce, 
afterward the renowned Bishop Pierce, became the 
first president of the Georgia Female College. He 
later served Emory University in the same capacity. 

In the spring of 1840, eleven young women re- 
ceived the bachelor’s degree, having completed a 
course of study equal in extent and thoroughness to 
that of the leading institutions for men. The first of 


the young ladies to receive her diploma was Miss IB SMA 
: . ever granted to 
Catherine E. Brewer, later the mother of Admiral pe 


William S. Benson, who holds the distinction of being 
the first woman in the world to receive from a 
woman’s college the A. B. degree. 

In 1843 the building was sold for a balance due the 

contractor but was bought in by Dr. William H. 
Ellison, then president, for the Methodist Church, whose prop- 
erty it then became and to which it has ever since belonged. A 
new charter was then granted, the name being changed to Wes- 
leyan Female College. 

Wesleyan as it serves today has retained all that is best in the 
ideals of the old South with all that is glorious in the purposes 
of the new. It is the charm of this grace and the equipment of 
this power that places Wesleyan women in the very forefront of 
those that serve. 


A graduating class of the early eighties 


1114A 


A Rich 
and 
Ennobling 


Influence 


Like a beacon, 
overlooking 
the entire 

city 


HE home of old Wesleyan in 1836 was a small frontier 

town, only thirteen years old at the time the College was 

chartered. Then there were no railroad connections and 
the population did not exceed 4,000, though the surrounding 
country abounded in large plantations. It was, however, a rather 
wealthy district and the quiet life of the leading people of that 
time fostered a taste for reading, literature and thought. 

Macon proved to be an ideal location for the College. In natural 
beauty, in its salubrious climate and in the general culture of its 
leading people the little city offered to this notable enterprise a 
most congenial atmosphere. 

Standing as it does solidly and beautifully on an eminence 
overlooking the entire city, the College is like a beacon, ever 
pointing the way to the higher things. Every influence is exerted 
to retain all the gentleness and modesty of the Old South and at 
the same time offer to the young women of today the best of 
modern educational opportunities. 


Sitting Room One, 
a social rendezvous 


HROUGHOUT its entire history Wesleyan has been known 
as a center of culture. 

A brilliant preacher, after spending several days at 
Wesleyan, said: “It is the most delightful and sacred environment 
in which I have ever been privileged to visit.” And one of the Col- 
lege’s most generous benefactors once, when asked if he had any 
suggestions to make in regard to the building, replied: “No, I 
only want you to construct a building which will make a pleasant 
and delightful home for the daughters of the South.” These 
Christian men laid great emphasis upon the value of the soul. 

In Wesleyan’s eighty-eight years, more than 3,000 graduates 
and hundreds of other matriculates have received the blessing of 
years of culture in this time-honored institution. 

Wesleyan girls have ever been the highest exponents of that 
intellectual strength, broad scholarship and noble Christian char- 
acter which permeates the College and which is destined to exert 
even a greater influence in the future. 


Delightful 


Home 


Front entrance of the Chapel 


ESLEYAN students, though surrounded by a religious at- 
mosphere, are not in any sense subject to any denomi- 
national influence. Students of all beliefs are in attend- 
ance and enjoy the largest liberty in their faith and practice. 
Wesleyan belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
The members of its Board of Trustees are subject to confirmation 
by the North and South Georgia and the Florida Conferences. 
The charter has been so amended that three graduates of the 
College will be elected by the Alumnae Association to member- 
ship on the Board of Trustees at the approaching commencement. 
In every other respect Wesleyan is undenominational. Students 
attend church of their own choice on Sunday and daughters of 
preachers of any denomination are given full tuition. At Wesleyan 
the Christian religion is commended by precept and example. It is 
an influence, appealing, restful and strong, without the conscious- 
ness of obligation. 


An Education 
Naturally 
and Normally 
Religious 


The 
- Department 
of Music 


HE Wesleyan Conservatory of Music, under the present 

system, functions as a department of the College proper, 

which prescribes its entrance requirements and supervises 
the non-musical part of the curriculum of the Conservatory 
students. 

The curriculum of the Conservatory, even under the present 
handicap, has been said by a noted critic to be the best of any 
conservatory of music in the South. 

Two hundred and seventy-five students are enrolled in the 
department this year, and every one of them has the opportunity 
of studying with a specialist, for there are no assistant teachers. 
There are fifty-two pianos available to the students for practice, 
besides the second largest pipe organ in the South; all of which are 
kept in excellent repair. 

The major divisions of the Conservatory curriculum include 
piano, violin, organ and voice, and in each of these great interest 
is shown by the student body, who have organized a well-trained 
chorus, a student orchestra and a splendid glee club. 


The second 
largest pipe organ 
in the South 


T 1s the hope of the College administration to develop at Wes- 
leyan the greatest school of music in the South and there 
is ample reason to believe that it can be done. 

At present, hundreds of students who wish to attend the Con- 
servatory are turned away; due largely to lack of room and to the 
academic requirements of the entrance board of the College 
proper, which supervises the non-musical part of the curriculum 
of the Conservatory students. When the Conservatory and College 
of Liberal Arts are placed in separate buildings, as is now planned, 
the serious handicap to both will have been removed. 

Drawing on the territory of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, 
Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, Professor Maerz, Director of 
the Conservatory of Music, is convinced that there will be 500 
applicants as soon as they can be accommodated, and that in five 
years there will be an enrollment of 500 in the Conservatory. 

Under such conditions the Conservatory may offer opportunt- 
ties equal to those of the New England Conservatory of Music, 
the Cincinnati and Chicago Conservatories of Music and the best 
New York conservatories. 


Musical instruments 
form an important part 
of the girl’s luggage 


The 

Promise of a 
Great 
Conservatory 


On the 
Campus 


HE daily life of the student body is indicative of the type 
of girl the College is training. One has but to walk through 
the historic old buildings or stroll about the small but 


picturesque campus, to realize that here, engaged in their various 
activities, are girls that come from the best homes in the country. 

With a campus laid off in lawns, tennis courts, basket ball 
grounds and a hockey field there is some provision for every girl 
to be engaged in sports the year round. The present campus, 
however, is inadequate for the students now enrolled at Wesleyan 
and could in no possible way be made to accommodate the great 
increase in students that Wesleyan must prepare to meet. 

The greatest interest and enthusiasm is evinced by the whole 
student body in all inter-class meets and championship competi- 
tions,which have brought into their daily life a fine spirit of sports- 


manship and camaraderie that permeates the whole College. 


TUDENT life on the campus, however, is not alone devoted to 
sports and kindred interests, for one very definite aim of all 
education is to develop personality and individuality among 

the students. 

These qualities are created quite as much by means of social 
organizations and literary enterprises as by the more strenuous 
participation in games. 

The Golden Heart, Round Table, Dramatic Club and Gator 
Club are but a few that create fellowship. The Y.W.C.A., the 
Student Government Association and Athletic Association offer a 
wider scope for service and executive ability; particularly is this 
true of the Y.W.C.A., which embraces practically the entire stu- 
dent body. 

The Wesleyan, the weekly Watch Tower, The fester and the 
Veterropt, which is the “Annual,” afford unique and valuable 
opportunities for the exercise of talents. 

Thus the students build life-long friendships and a gentler cul- 
ture than 1s gained by the purely intellectual pursuits. 


The Crow’s Nest 


NE of the most noteworthy ideals in Wesleyan’s education 
is the spirit of service. As the emblem of her love for hu- 


manity in all lands, there are embroidered on her service 


flag 36 stars, representing Wesleyan daughters who are organiz- 
ing education, instilling courage and spreading hope in China, 
Japan, Korea, Mexico, Cuba, India and Brazil. 

Not only have representatives of Wesleyan gone into the East 
and into Latin America, but representatives of these countries 
have come to her and carried away with them a portion of her 
great Christian faith. 

Out of the halls of Wesleyan have gone more than three thou- 
sand graduates, of whom there are two physicians, two lawyers, 
ten librarians, ten journalists, forty missionaries, three hundred 
and twenty-nine teachers and two thousand two hundred and 
fifty home builders. Seventy per cent. of the present student body 
have already chosen vocations. Practically half of the senior class 
and 46 per cent. of the entire student body intend to teach. 


Wesleyan’s 
Service is 
Universal 


For the 
Development of 
Individuality 


A test in the biology laboratory 


TARTING as an experiment in education, Wesleyan today offers 
standard courses leading to the A. B. degree. 

For several years Wesleyan has been a member of The 
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the Southern 
States and of the American Association of University Women. 
Graduates of the College are admitted to the best universities 
for graduate work without examination. 

A library of more than 10,000 well selected volumes is one of 
the great assets of the College. 

But in addition to the literary and scientific advantages, there 
has been built up at Wesleyan a School of Fine Arts and a Depart- 
ment of Expression. Splendid courses are offered in drawing, 
painting and in ceramic art. The “Spoken Word” is given an 
important place in the curriculum. 

The master artists of the world regularly visit the College and 
thus afford students of artistic talent and ambition the benefit of 
hearing them in concerts, lectures and entertainments. 

But due to lack of sufficient space and accommodations, over 
300 applicants yearly are denied this splendid educational service. 


Getting out an edition of the Macon Telegraph 


HE students who are interested in journalism are offered 

unique opportunities for practical experience. They 

benefit not only by the regular course lectures but are 
privileged to hear addresses by some of the most successful 
journalists in the country. From the very beginning they are 
trained in painstaking habits of revision, in constructive criticism 
and in gathering and preparing news stories. 

The beginners in the course are required to edit and publish a 
make-believe newspaper, while the advanced class turns out one 
entire issue of the Macon Telegraph. 

To encourage and develop the vital quality of home-maker, the 
College instituted a course in home economics. 

During the year the girls are required to give a sufficient num- 
ber of luncheons, dinners, teas and receptions to enable every 
member of the last year class to officiate at some one event. 

The semi-annual exhibitions of the work of the sewing 
classes, which are a division of the Domestic Art Department, 
display excellent workmanship, selection and construction of 
clothing. 


Departments of 
Journalism and 
Home Economics 


The 
Faculty 


The Palette and Brush Club—Showing special younger students in attendance 


ROM its very beginning the authorities of Wesleyan College 

have sought to bring together the most efficient teachers and 

have been remarkably successful in securing those who com- 
bine high scholarship with nobility of character. 

The first president, George F. Pierce, was a man of rare gifts 
and gave to the College a tone and an atmosphere which has 
characterized it through all succeeding years. Great teachers and 
leaders like William H. Ellison, E. H. Myers, William C. Bass and 
others are found among those who gave their lives to the College 
in the years of the past. Mrs. John B. Cobb and Mrs. M. M. Burks 
were for many years teachers of English and gave to thousands of 
young women the impress of their strong, cultured womanhood. 

Today the College has 50 teachers and officials and the faculty 
is one of the strongest in the South. Within the past three years 
the number of teachers has been doubled, several professors hold- 
ing the Ph.D. degree having been added. Wesleyan is a member 
of The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the 
Southern States and of the American Association of University 
Women. 

With the adoption of quality credits, automatic exclusion and 
the introduction of the honor grades and honor society, the work 
being done compares most favorably with that of the strongest 
colleges in the South. 


ESLEYAN aims through her Department of Physical Edu- 

cation to give to the students training that will enable 

them to become strong and healthy and to acquire greater 
activity and grace of motion. Open to every student at Wesleyan 
are the usual forms of athletics, such as basket ball, tennis, base- 
ball, hockey, volley ball, track and field sports. 

The appearance of the Wesleyan student body in the parade at 
the Macon Centennial was perhaps the most gratifying testimony 
of the active interest taken in athletics by the student body, 
whose carriage, grace and rhythm in marching excelled all other 
groups and won for Wesleyan “The Grand Prize.” 

It is significant of the care taken of the students, that in 
nineteen years, with a boarding student body averaging over four 
hundred, there has never been a broken bone, nora sprain of any 
kind requiring a plaster cast or splints; yet the most active and 
competitive games are held the year round. 

A well equipped infirmary and a thoroughly competent matron 
are at all times prepared to care for any accidents which may 
occur as well as for any case of illness. 


The 
Acquirement 
of Health, 
Posture and 
Carriage 


Wesleyan girls proclaiming the queen at the Centennial 


Rivoli’s woodland campus at dusk , 


ucH has been Wesleyan’s contribution to the progress of civili- 

zation; but all that has been done and all that Wesleyan is 

doing today, is in no way proportionate to the greater oppor- 
tunity for service which is rightly her heritage. 


Wesleyan has no indebtedness and could carry on as she is now 
doing for some years to come; but that means turning away more 
than 300 students a year; it means limiting the advantages Wes- 
leyan should offer to the daughters of the South and of the country 
at large; it means stifling its service to the Church, the State and 
the Nation. 

The buildings where the College is now housed are wholly in- 
adequate for a growing institution. The laboratories, library, 
dining room and gymnasium are all overcrowded. The present 
Conservatory of Music is placed at a great disadvantage by the 
academic schedule of the College, and its scope 1s limited. This 1s 
also true of the School of Fine Arts, while the College of Liberal 
Arts is likewise handicapped. . 

At Rivoli, five miles from Macon, on the Dixie Highway of 
Georgia and the Central Railway leading to Atlanta, Wesleyan 
owns 132 acres of beautiful land, an ideal campus, formerly the 
property of Mr. J. A. Flournoy. Here, among soft shrubbery, 
smooth green lawns and woodland, interwoven with miniature 
lakes and flowers—is planned ““The Greater Wesleyan.” 

Here are unexcelled advantages for the highest culture and the 
best physical development. Here the voice of God speaking 
through nature will call the splendid daughters of Wesleyan to the 
loftiest thinking, the noblest aspirations and the most unselfish 
service. 


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PON the beautiful and spacious campus recently purchased 
the Greater Wesleyan will be erected. The plan of the 
architect provides for the early construction of four 

dormitories, to be grouped around the beautiful lawns, the center 
of which is the Japanese Lake. The Library building will be within 
the great semi-circle of buildings and will be near the dormitories 
so that it will be easy of access at all hours. The dining hall will be 
so located as to overlook the lawns in the front and the spacious 
woods in the rear. 

The Administration building, located on the crest of a beauti- 
ful hill about 600 feet from the entrance, will be the central build- 
ing of the semi-circle and the center of the entire group. A lan- 
guage building and a science hall will be erected in the semi-circle. 
The gymnasium and swimming pool building will be near the dor- 
mitories in the rear of the buildings. The plant will be erected for 
the accommodation of five hundred students, and other buildings 
will be added as the program of the College is developed. 

The athletic field, the golf course, the Shakespearean Garden 
and the beautiful lake will make a large contribution to the health 
and happiness of the students. 


Rolling lawns, pine trees and shrubs—Rivoli 


Bishop Ainsworth, 
President, 
Board of Trustees 


HE plan of the Greater Wesleyan is to move the College of 

Liberal Arts to the new site and to leave the present build- 

ings and grounds to the Conservatory of Music and the 
School of Fine Arts; for it is more desirable that these departments 
remain within the city limits. 

The Greater Wesleyan will train a constantly increasing num- 
ber of efficient workers for home and mission fields. It will enable 
young women to receive the highest education in liberal arts and 
fine arts at a minimum cost. It will attract students from all sec- 
tions of the nation and from foreign countries. 

It is estimated that within five years after the College of Liberal 
“Arts has been moved to Rivoli, there will be enrolled some 1,000 
students and s00 in the Conservatory in the city. 

The plan when carried out will cause Wesleyan to be recognized 
not only as the oldest college for women, but as one of the leading 
colleges in the entire South. 

The Greater Wesleyan contemplates two magnificent institu- 
tions working together for a greater Georgia and a far greater 
educational program. 


A Far 
Greater 
Educational 
Program 


ESLEYAN today is facing her greatest opportunity. If 
properly supported she will meet the demands which 
modern civilization makes upon its colleges. 

The urgent need is for funds with which to build an adequate 
plant to house this splendid educational program. 

To construct and equip the necessary buildings will require 
$1,050,000 as a minimum, and it is to her daughters and friends 
that the College must look for assistance in this great undertaking. 

The buildings most urgently needed are: 


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It is expected that those who love Wesleyan and are interested 
in her destiny will contribute generously of their time and means 
to build this great cultural center. 

Any sum of money given to this great Christian undertaking 
will be an investment in life, worthy of the high ideals and broad 
vision which were responsible for the Wesleyan of today. A gift to 
Wesleyan is a gift to humanity. 


HE brave old College has blazed the way for other institu- 

tions and is today the proud mother of them all. Let us see 

toit that the Old Mother does not suffer in her hour of need. 

Let us quickly provide these buildings, equip them for the most 

modern educational work and give to our beloved Wesleyan the 

glorious privilege of an ever-enlarging service to the coming 
generations. 


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